Claudette Colvin became the very first person to get arrested for resisting bus segregating in Montgomery, Alabama on March 2, 1955. This took place a complete nine months before Rosa Park's historic protest. Her case went before the United States Supreme Court when the judges determined the local and state segregation laws were unconstitutional, and the ruling was upheld on December 17, 1956.
Three days after she testified before the Supreme Court, Montgomery and the state of Alabama were ordered to end bus segregation laws. So why is she left out of the textbooks? She was a pregnant, unmarried teenager at the time, so the NAACP leaders hesitated to use her to represent their movement.
